Characterization of peptide components in the venom of the scorpion Liocheles australasiae (Hemiscorpiidae)

Toxicon

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 428-437

  Miyashita, Masahiro ^a   Otsuki, Junko ^a   Hanai, Yosuke ^a   Nakagawa, Yoshiaki ^a   Miyagawa, Hisashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disulfide bridge; Liocheles australasiae; Mass spectrometric analysis; Scorpion toxin; Venom

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; SCORPION VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INSECT; LIOCHELES AUSTRALASIAE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCORPION; TICK;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; GRYLLIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS;

BUTHIDAE; GRYLLIDAE; HEXAPODA; IXODIDA; LIOCHELES; MUS; SCORPIONES;

EID: 34447636236     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2007.04.012     Document Type: Article

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